“The core insight of modern liberalism is powerfully simple: we all benefit from a society that provides for the economic security and wellbeing of each member, whatever the heartbreaks of life. True, this vision was originally restricted by race to… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
“This is not to portray race as simply one among many issues, each with equal weight; instead, race has been the principal weapon in the right’s arsenal against New Deal liberalism. More than any other single concern, over the last… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
“Alabama in 1927 alone, 27,701 men were arrested on misdemeanor charges and offered for sale by county sheriffs. In Blackmon’s estimation, “roughly half of… — Ian Haney López Copy Share
“Start with the first half of Phillips’ statement, the claim that economic issues favored the Democrats when government programs “taxed the few for the… — Ian Haney López Copy Share
“the confluence of racial prejudice and conservative politics is the new racism. It’s a product of almost a half-century of ethnic discourse and coded… — Ian Haney López Copy Share
“When the children were asked how many white people were “mean,” they commonly answered “almost none.” But when asked how many blacks were mean,… — Ian Haney López Copy Share
“Kevin Phillips also saw clearly that success lay in stimulating racial antipathies among whites across the country. For Phillips, if there was a regional… — Ian Haney López Copy Share
“The Tea Party that reenergized the GOP in 2010 and that implacably attacked Obama turned out to be a familiar nemesis of liberalism and… — Ian Haney López Copy Share
“Reagan Democrats increasingly extended their antipathy from nonwhites to government as a whole. “These white Democratic defectors express a profound distaste for blacks, a… — Ian Haney López Copy Share
“In the wake of 1984’s pummeling the Michigan Democratic Party commissioned Stanley Greenberg, then a political scientist and later a preeminent Democratic pollster, to… — Ian Haney López Copy Share
“After 2012, Republicans controlled all 11 state legislatures of the former Confederacy, and their campaign tactics centered more than ever on depicting themselves as… — Ian Haney López Copy Share
“We would like to believe that if the polity understood that race-baiting continues to be widely practiced, people would repudiate it. Yet many whites… — Ian Haney López Copy Share
“The core insight of modern liberalism is powerfully simple: we all benefit from a society that provides for the economic security and wellbeing of… — Ian Haney López Copy Share
“Racial attacks on liberalism shifted the enemy of the middle class from big money to lazy minorities, and transmuted economic programs that helped to… — Ian Haney López Copy Share
“Dog whistling comes out of the South and its preoccupation with blacks, but it always involved equal opportunity racism, and never more so than… — Ian Haney López Copy Share
“This is not to portray race as simply one among many issues, each with equal weight; instead, race has been the principal weapon in… — Ian Haney López Copy Share
“In 1963, Robert Novak had written that many Republican leaders were intent on converting the Party of Lincoln into the White Man’s Party. The… — Ian Haney López Copy Share
